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Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004), popularly known as P. V. Narasimha Rao, was an Indian lawyer, statesman and politician from the Indian National Congress Party who was Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He was the first person from South India and second person from a non- Hindi speaking background ...
The 1992 Indian stock market scam was a market manipulation carried out by Mr Harshad Mehta and politicians on the Bombay Stock Exchange. That scam caused significant disruption to the stock market of India, defrauding investors of over ten million USD. Techniques used by Mehta involved having corrupt officials signing fake cheques, misusing ...
The stone mosaic that stands at the location where Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur. The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, occurred as a result of a suicide bombing in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 May 1991. [2] At least 14 others, in addition to Gandhi and the assassin, were killed. [3]
Kannoth Karunakaran (5 July 1918 – 23 December 2010) was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Kerala in 1977, from 1981 to March 1982, from May 1982 to 1987 and from 1991 to 1995. He is the founder of the Indian National Congress (INC)-led United Democratic Front (UDF) coalition, which governed the state in the periods of ...
Rajiv Gandhi[ 1 ] (/ ˈrɑːdʒiːvˈɡɑːndiː / ⓘ; Hindi pronunciation: [raːdʒiːʋ ɡaːndʱiː]; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) [ 2 ][ 3 ] was an Indian politician who was Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become at the age of 40 the ...
Nagi Reddy stood as an MLA candidate for the opposition Telugu Desam Party in the 1991 by-election for the Allagadda constituency left vacant by the death of his brother Bhuma Sekhar Reddy, who died of a heart attack on 7 June. In 1996, he challenged Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao for the TDP. Although Nagi Reddy was narrowly defeated, he ...
Narasimha Rao had decreed that the book be published after his death, and accordingly it was published in August 2006. He claims that the book is not an “exercise in self-righteousness or justification”, the content of the book indicate an attempt by him to absolve himself and his government of the responsibility for the failure to prevent the removal of the controversial structure known ...
In Memphis, 25.96 people per 100,000 residents were killed in fatal motor vehicle accidents, the most of any major U.S. city. Detroit and Albuquerque, New Mexico, followed with the highest rate of ...